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"The 13 Disappearing Steps" Author: [Japanese] Kazuaki Kono Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House Translator: Zhao Jianxun
"The 13 Disappearing Steps" Author: [Japanese] Kazuaki Kono Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House Translator: Zhao Jianxun
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Introduction · · · · · ·
【Content Introduction】
An elderly couple was brutally murdered. All evidence points to Shuyuan Liang, but he just lost his memory of the few hours before and after the incident due to a car accident...
The executioner Nanxiang and Junyi, who had just been released on parole, investigated and hoped to clear the wrongdoing of the death row inmate who had lost his memory. However, the only clue they found was that Shuyuan Liang remembered that he had "walked on the steps".
There is not much time left before Shuyuan Liang is executed, but the case is still shrouded in mystery, and the only clue, the "stairs", seems to have disappeared out of thin air...
【Editor's recommendation】
🔹Won the Edogawa Ranpo Award, the highest honor for Japanese mystery novels!
🔸Won the 2nd place in Weekly Bunshun's "BEST 10 Mystery Novels".
🔹Nominated for the "This mystery novel is amazing" list.
🔸The author Kazuaki Takano has won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, and his works have been shortlisted for major lists.
🔹Japanese mystery novelist Miyabe Miyuki praised this book highly and wrote a commentary for it.
🔸It was adapted into a movie, starring Takashi Sorimachi and Tsutomu Yamazaki!
🔹Behind the confusing case is a penetrating discussion of the death penalty system.
🔸Is it worthwhile to bury your own life for a satisfying revenge?
【Famous Comments】
This is a very courageous attempt, and the author's enthusiasm can be felt everywhere in the text. I read the book in one breath and highly recommend it! - Miyuki Miyabe
The intricate truth is not revealed until the end of the story, and the plot is perfectly conceived! - Kitamura Kaoru
Although the content is a bit heavy, this book has a majestic momentum that makes people read it all in one go. - Kenzo Kitagawa
All the qualities that an excellent mystery novel should possess are perfectly fulfilled in this book. - Tsuyoshi Osaka
About the Author · · · · · ·
Kono Kazuaki
Japanese novelist and screenwriter. He aspired to be a director since he was a child and started making his own movies in the sixth grade. In 1989, he went to the United States to study film production and returned to Japan in 1991 to start writing scripts.
As soon as Kazuaki Takano's science fiction novel "The Extinction of Man" was published, it immediately swept many major awards including the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award and the Yamada Fuutarou Award.
"The 13 Disappearing Steps" is the debut work of Kazuaki Takano, which won the 47th Edogawa Ranpo Award. It was highly recommended by the famous Japanese mystery novelist Miyabe Miyuki and received unanimous praise from the judges, attracting widespread attention from readers.
Kazuaki Takano's novels read like movies, with a very three-dimensional sense of picture, full of dramatic tension, brisk pace, and no dull moments.
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